Client: Minnesota State University Moorhead Music Industry Department/Minnesota State University Moorhead Television Production Center, 1993.

Project Overview:
In the late-1980s to mid-1990s, the Minnesota State University Moorhead Music Industry Department was at its best. The Music Industry Program was a leader among programs in comparable schools. Under the direction of Mike Coates, the department produced a dozen live concerts, including A Tribute to Pink Floyd, Scary Monsters of Rock and You Say You Want a Revolution, among many others, which the Television Production Center produced for television broadcast.

In addition to live concerts, the Music Industry Program also produced an annual CD called Dragontracks, a release of original music by Music Industry students. It is this project where the music video Body was developed.

Each year, the students who collaborated on the release of Dragontracks determined which track was voted 'Best of Album.' With this designation, the artist would then have the opportunity to collaborate with the MSUM Television Production Center crew (Bob Schieffer and myself) to produce a music video of the track.

Body is the original composition of Eric Lehrke.

My Role in the Project:
I was the lead photographer and assistant editor of Body while I was a student at MSUM.

My Comments
Body provided a concept where I could really be creative with the camera for the very first time. We elected to use a grainy, high contrast, black and white look to the project and we could control in all of the locations of our project.

This was also a project were I built a special camera dolly cart to accomplish the shots I had in mind at the church location. This is where I learned how to weld!

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